[CQ-Contest] Contest History and presentation outline

[Cady, Fred]

Thanks to all who help point me at some contest history for my program
at the local club.  

Here is my outline for the contest presentation at the
local club meeting.  The best source of information on contest
history is the series of articles in the CQ Contest magazine and
the CQ Amateur Radio Almanac.  I have the entire presentation in 
powerpoint (except the 35mm slides) if anybody would like to have
a copy of it.  I can email it but it is about 600K bytes!
73, Fred KE7X


                               
   CQ Contest, CQ Contest . . .
   Fred Cady - KE7X
   4M5I, C6AHX, 4M5X, 6Y4A
                                               
    Introduction
         About Contesting
         History of Contesting
         Types of Contests
         Components of Contesting
    Contesting History
         ARRL DX
          1st International Relay Party - 1927
              2 weeks long! 
              200 Contacts!
          CQWW DX
              1939 Radio Magazine, 1948 CQ
          Field Day
              First notice June 1933
                  62 Q's, 28 sections
                  Emergency Preparedness Theme
              Field Day about 1960 (Slide)
              Field Day 5 kW Generator (Slide)
              The equipment was primitive but the operators were
intense. (Slide)
          WRTC - World Radiosport Team Championship
              1990 - Seattle
              1996 - San Francisco
              2000 - ?
    Types of Contests
         Frequency Bands
             HF, VHF/UHF
             All Bands (160 - 10m)
             Single Band (10m, 160m)
         Duration
             4 hour Sprint, 24 hour, 48 hour
         SSB, CW, Mixed Mode, RTTY
         Number of Operators
             Single Op (SO)
             Single Op Assisted (SOA)
             Multi-Single (MS)
             Multi-Multi (MM)
         WPX (Work Prefixes)
         DX
         Local
         Field Day
    Components of Contesting
         Planning
         Operating Skills
         Propagation
         Antennas
         Equipment
    Operating Skills
         Speed, Accuracy, Endurance
         Running a Pile-up is a Gas
    Propagation
         Band Planning
         Normal Vs Abnormal Paths
         Tools
            Geoclock
            MOF/LOF
            Miniprop
            Beacon Wizard
         Geoclock (slide)
            http://www.clark.net/pub/bblake/geoclock/index.html
         K1TTT MOF/LOF (slide)
            http://www.berkshire.net/~robbins/software.html
         Miniprop
         Beacon Wizard
    Antennas
         Loud is Good, but ...
         Design
            Front-to-back Vs Gain
            Related to propagation analysis
            Radiation angle
         Diversity
            Need lots of antennas
            Double beaming and tail gunning
         C6AHX - Treasure Key, Bahamas, 1994 (slides)
         4M5X - Caracas, Venezuela, 1995 (slides)
         6Y4A - Discovery Bay, Jamaica, 1997 (slides)
    Equipment
         Transceivers
         Amplifiers
         Coax (miles)
         Antenna Patch Panel
         WX0B Stack Matcher
    Station Engineering
         Inter-station Interference
            Bandpass filters
            Coax stubs
            Antenna placement
           Grounding
    Stations 
        C6AHX (slides)
        4M5X (slides)
        6Y4A (slides)
        6Y4A (Video)
    Computers
        Logging
            CT
            NA
            LOG
        PED CT Simulator (demo)
    Computers
        Networking 
        Internet
        Radio  Interference
        6Y4A 
        6Y4A Computer Setup (slide)
    Strategy
        Work Stations Fast
        Multipliers
            Cluster spots
            Passing mults
            In-band multing
    Camaraderie
        Group Dynamics
        Motivated and goal oriented operators
        Bright People
        Dayton Hamvention
        Contesting Reflector
          www.contesting.com
        Radio Club of Venezuela (slides)
    Where Do I Start?
        Lots of Contests
        GHRC Field Day
            All above plus
            Emergency operations
       GHRC Field Day 1998
           June 27, 28
           Battleridge Cabin
           2 SSB, 1 CW Stations?
           Station Captains
    


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